Expert Witness Report - National Center for Science Education

Institute for Creation Research (YEC) (1980): “Today there are thousands of scientists
who are creationists and who repudiate any form of evolution in their analysis and use of
scientific data. Creationist scientists can now be found in literally every discipline of
science and their numbers are increasing rapidly.” 72
Kenyon affidavit (1986): “Although students generally hear only one side on the origins
question, increasing numbers of scientists are now abandoning evolution for a new
scientific version of creationism. Creationist scientists now number in the hundreds,
possibly in the thousands, in the States and other countries.” 73
Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, “Top Questions [on ID]”
(2004): “Since Discovery Institute first published its statement of dissent form Darwin in
2001, more than 300 scientists have courageously stepped forward and signed onto a
growing list of scientists of all disciplines voicing their skepticism over the central tenets
of Darwin’s theory of evolution.” 74
Of Pandas and People (1993): “ Pandas gives students a much-needed opportunity to
explore the evidence and arguments that have caused some scientists to doubt
contemporary Darwinism. . . . Pandas helps students understand the case for intelligent
design. Following a growing number of scientists and philosophers, the authors argue
that life not only appears to have been intelligently designed but that it actually was.” 75
2. Creationists reject natural explanations of such things as the origin of life.
Henry Morris, ed., Scientific Creationism (1974) (YEC): “Creationists believe that this
continued emphasis on the naturalistic or artificial production of living organisms is
highly misleading. None of these phenomena would ever occur under natural
conditions. . . . There is no [sic] slightest scientific evidence that life can come from nonlife.
The creation model emphasizes the unique origin of life, at the creative word of a
living Creator.” 76
Kenyon affidavit (1986): “Until such evidence [that life on earth could have begun
spontaneously by purely chemical and physical means] is forthcoming, one certainly
72 See “The ICR Scientists,” Impact (August 1980), Institute for Creation Research, at
www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-086.htm. Accessed on March 14 2005.
73 See Kenyon, “Affidavit,” 61-62.
74 See Center for Science and Culture, “Top Questions,” at www.discovery.org/csc/topQuestions.php.
Accessed on March 14, 2005.
75 See Mark D. Hartwig and Stephen C. Meyer, “A Note to Teachers,” in Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon,
Of Pandas and People (Dallas, TX: Haughton Publishing Co., 1993), 157.
76 See Henry M. Morris, ed., Scientific Creationism (Public School Edition), (San Diego, CA: Creation-Life
Publishers, 1974), 50-51.
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